Konkurence spisovných koncovek ve 3. os. pl. ind. préz. akt. sloves vzoru sází ve zpravodajské rubrice serveru iDNES

This paper summarises the results of an inquiry into the morphological variation in the present-tense third-person plural of the “sázet” type (this type belongs to class IV, containing verbs with the indicative present stem suffix -í-). There are two possible forms in Standard Czech: sází and sázejí (the form sází was codified alongside sázejí in 1993). The sample examined contains 1 500 occurrences from the online newspaper iDNES (from November 2013 to June 2014). The analysis shows that the prevailing form is sázejí. However, there are several verbs for which a more frequent incidence of the equivalent of the sází form can be regarded as an increasing tendency (particularly chybět, stavět, umět). Comparison with the Czech corpus SYN2013PUB seems to confirm these assumptions.